The View From Kalamazoo

Wait, I think I need to say that one more time: Holy shit.

Dude, Paris is burning: Protesting students are burning books. Ecole des chartes is still doing an inventory. Seems as though 19th century copies of medieval documents may be the “livres anciens,” not medieval MSS proper..but I think a lot of details are as yet unknown.

Here are a some links

La Sorbonne prise en otage pendant douze heures

Des livres rares volés ou brûlés

Le gouvernement choisit la fermeté face à la fronde anti-CPE

Here are some English-language articles up about an hour ago, mostly yakking about the cars, shops, and union angst:

From Reuters UK

Fox

CNN